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auto save feature (not auto recovery)
I just upgraded to Microsoft Office 2003 and am frantically looking for the
auto save addin feature. I do not like the auto recovery feature. Where did this feature go??? and how do I get it back. |
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Hi,
It's gone, have a look here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/149235 Mike "Dawnee" wrote: I just upgraded to Microsoft Office 2003 and am frantically looking for the auto save addin feature. I do not like the auto recovery feature. Where did this feature go??? and how do I get it back. |
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xl2k and below came with an optional addin called AutoSave.xla. It could be set
to save every x minutes (user selectable). And it just saves the file at those intervals. xl2002+ comes with something called autorecovery. It's also optional, but if the user turns it on, it saves a copy of that workbook in a special location (also user selectable). If windows or excel crashes, then the next time excel opens, it notices that there's a file in that location. Excel prompts the user to see if he/she wants to recover that file that was saved when excel/windows crashed. This autorecovery feature isn't used for the same purpose as AutoSave. You may be interested in an addin that Jan Karel Pieterse (works in any version) called AutoSafe (note spelling). It doesn't overwrite the existing workbook when it saves. It saves to a user selectable folder. And when it's done, it either deletes these backups (or puts them in the recycle bin). And the user can always restore the backups from the recycle bin. http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm (look for AutoSafe.zip, not autosafeVBE.zip, for your purposes.) Do you have access to the distribution disks to the older version of excel? Or even access to a pc still running the older version of excel? Dawnee wrote: I just upgraded to Microsoft Office 2003 and am frantically looking for the auto save addin feature. I do not like the auto recovery feature. Where did this feature go??? and how do I get it back. -- Dave Peterson |
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If you cannot get access to the old Autosave.xla and don't want to use
Dave's suggestion of JK's autosafe, email me and I'll send you a copy of Autosave.xla Change the AT and DOT for my email address. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:06:01 -0800, Dawnee wrote: I just upgraded to Microsoft Office 2003 and am frantically looking for the auto save addin feature. I do not like the auto recovery feature. Where did this feature go??? and how do I get it back. |
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